Spam-Email-Classifier

About

• This is a spam filter that flags a message as spam or ham.
• A message is classified based on the number of spam words present.
• A fixed number of spam words are stored in a trie and through string matching the number of spam words in a message can be decided
• This is a naive approach to spam filtering

How to Use?

• Download the code files and text files present in this repository
• Ensure to change file location in the code, to your local folders
• Create two seperate folders called - Spam and Ham
• Update their file locations in the code
• Run Spam_Filter.java

Directory Contents

• Code: Contains the file Spam_Filter.java
• Text Files: Contains one text file called Spam Words and another folder called Test Files that contains sample text files for execution